2024-07-13
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Horseshit
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The Golden Age of the Supermarket Is Ending - The Atlantic
food shortages of all kinds keep hitting the grocery store. In recent months, olive oil, cocoa, and orange juice have been in short supply, sending prices skyrocketing. The problem is largely climate change. Olive oil has more than doubled in cost over the past two years because drought and bad weather in the Mediterranean have shriveled olive groves; so many orange trees in Brazil are diseased and weakened by heat and drought that producers have considered making juice from other fruit. Higher temperatures have even made it harder to control the spread of bird flu, contributing to the egg crisis. These aren’t isolated events. Peanuts, sugar, vanilla, and beef—among other foods—have also been in short supply at points over the past few years. “We are entering an age of disruption,” Evan Fraser, a food-systems expert at the University of Guelph, in Canada, told me. Soon, Americans may no longer be able to count on supermarkets that are perpetually stocked with cheap food. The era of grocery abundance is ending, and a more somber one is taking its place.
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Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe
Electric / Self Driving cars
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Why Fisker's bankruptcy is likely to leave its EV owners without warranty
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(Video) Lotus Evija X Hypercar Crashes instantly at startline Goodwood 2024
"clearly a software issue"
celebrity gossip
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Alec Baldwin's Rust trial dismissed amid claims of hidden evidence
- Withheld evidence is a no-no. Perhaps Mr Baldwin can now go on a search for the real killer.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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The extent to which GARM has organized its trade association and coordinates actions that rob consumers of choices is likely illegal under the antitrust laws and threatens fundamental American freedoms,” the Republican-led panel said in its 39-page report based on internal organizational records.
Musk
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SpaceX's unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over
An investigation into the engine failure could delay SpaceX's upcoming crew launches. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffered an upper stage engine failure and deployed a batch of Starlink internet satellites into a perilously low orbit after launch from California Thursday night, the first blemish on the workhorse launcher's record in more than 300 missions since 2016.
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EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
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Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says
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Elon Musk's X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive
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EU warns X it may face fines for 'deceptive' blue-tick system
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Elon Musk: The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal.
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Cellular Starlink Satellites Are Much Brighter Than Expected
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Tesla Delays Robotaxi Event in Blow to Musk's Autonomy Drive
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win - The Atlantic
In the months that followed, Trump and his campaign would seize on Biden’s every stumble, his every blank stare to reinforce that observation, seeking to portray the incumbent as “stuttering, stammering, walking around, feeling his way like a blind man,” as LaCivita put it to me. That was the plan. And it worked. Watching Biden’s slide in the polls, and sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars for an advertising blitz that would punctuate the president’s visible decrepitude, Trump’s team entered the summer believing that a landslide awaited in the fall. Only one thing could disrupt that plan: a change of candidates atop the Democratic ticket.
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'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Heritage Foundation
After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec claims to have disbanded. According to a message on the group's Telegram channel, they had already planned to exit the scene this week.
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Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election
Since being reinstated in January, 2023, Trump's accounts have been subject to stricter penalties than other Meta users, including account suspensions and advertising restrictions, if he violated the company's rules. While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts were the only ones that have so far been subject to those restrictions, a spokesperson confirmed. Neither of Trump's official accounts on Instagram or Facebook violated the company's policies during his restriction period, which meant his accounts never triggered those penalties.
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Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Fortune to Swing 2024 Race
Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been ramping up criticism of U.S. President Joe Biden, has donated to a political group working to elect rival presidential candidate Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources. The report did not indicate how much Musk donated but added it was "a sizable amount" given to a group called America PAC. Bloomberg reported that the PAC - a group that can receive unlimited contributions for political activity - is next required to disclose its list of donors on July 15.
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
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CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility
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Study: Covid-19 reinfections likely have similar severity to original infection
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Senate Panel's Probe on COVID-19 Origin Tilts Toward Lab Leak
Did you know that four months before the world had ever heard of COVID-19—on Sept. 3, 2019—authorities in the Veneto region of Italy discovered COVID-19 antibodies in local blood samples. Of course, you didn’t. The deadly and mysterious COVID-19 was around much longer than anyone had previously suspected.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach | TechCrunch
In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, as well as AT&T records of calls and text messages — such as who contacted who by phone or text — during a six-month period between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022. AT&T said some of the stolen data includes more recent records from January 2, 2023 for a smaller but unspecified number of customers. The stolen data also includes call records of customers with phone service from other cell carriers that rely on AT&T’s network, the company said. AT&T said the stolen data “does not contain the content of calls or texts,” but does include calling and texting records that an AT&T phone number interacted with during the six-month period, as well as the total count of a customer’s calls and texts, and call durations — information that is often referred to as metadata. The stolen data does not include the time or date of calls or texts, AT&T said. Some of the stolen records include cell site identification numbers associated with phone calls and text messages, information that can be used to determine the approximate location of where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T said it learned of the data breach on April 19, and that it was unrelated to its earlier security incident in March.
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Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed
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AT&T says data from around 109M US customer accounts illegally downloaded
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AT&T Says Snowflake Hack Includes Records of Customer Calls, Texts
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AT&T says hackers stole records of nearly all cell customers' calls and texts
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AT&T says hacker stole some data from 'nearly all' wireless customers
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The strange backstory of how AI content ended up at Sports Illustrated - The Verge
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Stack Overflow has stopped publishing data dumps to the Internet Archive
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?
- Not surprising we've heard little replication of that "WiFi Radar" work. If you build such and find it doesn't work: not only do you not have the working "radar" you wanted, you can't say so without setting yourself against That Which Is Known to Activists. If it does work and you can replicate the results, you've created a system that is so deeply dystopian it makes you wanna shut down WiFi anywhere you are.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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The Only Ethical Model for AI Is Socialism
Today's large language models (LLMs) are produced by data from the public, so they can't ethically be owned by any one individual. Socialism is the only fair way to govern this technology.
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Brazil blocks Meta from using social media posts to train AI
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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NASA Mission to Europa Imperiled by Rad-Hard Infineon Mosfet
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SpaceX debris crashed onto Canadian farmland, highlighting a potential disaster
In late April, farmers in Saskatchewan stumbled upon spacecraft fragments while preparing their fields for seeding. It sounds like the beginning of a science fiction movie, but this really happened, sending a powerful warning: it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt or killed by falling space junk.
NASA allowed an old battery pallet to be released from the International Space Station, knowing it would re-enter uncontrollably. NASA said it should burn up completely, which was proven wrong in March when a potentially lethal fragment crashed through the roof, then ceiling, and then floor of a house in Florida.
So far, no one is known to have been hurt by falling space junk, but that’s just a matter of luck; people are finding more and more pieces in or near inhabited areas worldwide.
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NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner may be stuck in space until August
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Lunar spacecraft receive dozens of collision warnings
In a presentation at the Secure World Foundation’s Summit for Space Sustainability here July 11, Soyoung Chung, senior researcher at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s (KARI’s) strategy and planning directorate, said her agency had received 40 “red alarms” of potential collisions among spacecraft orbiting the moon in the last 18 months.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Nationwide is dropping pet insurance coverage for 100k animals
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The Chrysler Building, the Jewel of the Manhattan Skyline, Loses Its Luster
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New prices will take effect July 14 – USPS Employee News
The 5-cent increase for First-Class stamps ties the record for the biggest hike ever.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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While Union Leaders Line Up for Biden, Trump Has Backing of the Rank and File.
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Opinion | Three Legal Experts on a Shocking Supreme Court Term - The New York Times
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New prices will take effect July 14 – USPS Employee News
The 5-cent increase for First-Class stamps ties the record for the biggest hike ever.
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Can Biden be replaced as nominee? Not so easily.
Mr Biden has so far given no indication that he would consider stepping aside. But if he decides to do so, "that opens up an entirely different can of worms", political historian Leah Wright Rigueur told BBC News. "I think that if he were to get replaced, part of the negotiation for him stepping down would be that he would get the final say in who replaces him," she said.
In the modern political era, a major national party has never tried a hostile takeover of the nomination. However, DNC regulations do have some loopholes that could, in theory, make it possible to push Mr Biden out. The rules allow delegates to "in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them", meaning they could look to someone else. "It could be an incredibly ugly scenario," Ms Wright Rigueur said. Experts told BBC News they doubt there would be a revolt among party delegates. But the DNC can alter party rules at any point.
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Biden Struggled Through Fundraisers for Months Before the Debate. The Press Said Nothing.
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political insiders have told DailyMail.com that Democratic advisors are struggling to push past the powerful role that Jill Biden’s loathing of Harris, 59, is playing in Joe’s resistance to pass the mantle to his VP as pressure ratchets up for him to step down as presidential candidate and allow another Democrat tackle Donald Trump. According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside. Because the truth, according to a source who knows the First Couple well, is that Jill’s is now the only voice to which the 46th president listens.
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“Obama Knew Clooney Was Going to Call for Biden to Drop Out. He Didn’t Try to Stop Him,”
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Avengers Assemble! Heavyweight New Plan to Try to Force Biden Out.
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Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union... | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Advisors Threaten To "Beat The Shit Out Of" Staffers Who Don't Keep Quiet | ZeroHedge
CNN reports that a prominent Democrat has claimed Biden’s advisors have threatened White House staffers, saying they will “beat the shit out” of anyone who says anything about Biden’s health that runs contrary to their narrative.CNN anchor Jake Tapper spoke with reporter MJ Lee in a bizarre segment in which she revealed the claims. “This is what one top Democrat told me, they said, “Everyone who expresses any level of suspicion or contrary views, they call everyone, and they beat the shit out of them and say stay on message,” Lee asserted.
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Recovering from the journalism crisis: Reporters need to learn to apologize - Washington Examiner
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
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Over its two months in operation, about 8,800 metric tons of aid has been unloaded off the pier, about 500 truckloads, equivalent to a single day of deliveries before the war began. Critics of the scheme warned that the spectacular $230m project would divert attention from the international effort to pressure Israel to open the land crossings into Gaza, the most efficient means of delivering assistance to the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, more than a quarter of whom are in imminent danger of famine.
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Why did Delta Airlines tweet that the Palestinian flag is 'terrifying'?
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and Their Ecosystems
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World’s largest oil company bets on the enduring power of petrol
“It will be incredibly expensive for the world to completely stamp out, or do without internal combustion engines,” said Yasser Mufti, the executive vice-president at Saudi Aramco responsible for the deal. “If you look at affordability and a lot of other factors, I do think they will be around for a very, very long time.” Asked if he thought there would be internal combustion engines forever, Mufti said yes. Saudi Aramco has previously said it believes that even in 2050, more than half of all cars will still run on some sort of fuel.
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How hot is too hot for humans?
The human body can’t tolerate its temperature reaching 43 degrees C (about 109.4 degrees F). “Anyone who reaches that core temperature — 99.9% would die,” Vanos said. This is the upper limit of survival. Heat often kills in more subtle ways — by worsening pre-existing issues, like cardiovascular or renal disease.
After an influential study in 2010, climate researchers often use a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees C — roughly equivalent to 95 degrees F at 100% humidity — as an upper limit for human survival and adaptability without cooling. But this maximum doesn’t factor things like sun exposure, clothing and movement.
A 2022 study in the Journal of Applied Physiology, which used data from heat chamber tests, estimated that the threshold for wet-bulb temperatures is probably closer to 30-31 degrees Celsius (86 to 87.8 degrees F) for “young, healthy” subjects performing basic life tasks.
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Extreme temperatures across United States are grounding emergency helicopters
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Contempt, gagging, and UN intervention: inside the UK's wildest climate trial
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Solitary wooden house on Union Island escapes fury of Hurricane Beryl
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Hot car deaths reach 9 in 2024, highlight increased risk amid intense heat.